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00:00At a time when other top college quarterbacks were thinking about going pro, Bryson's mind

00:06was on something else.

00:07As he told an interviewer earlier this year, I'm focused on my career as an infantry officer.

00:14That's what he wants to do.

00:15So, Bryson, you did the right thing, and that's service at its finest.

00:22Thanks, Bryson.

00:24That's amazing.

00:25He's an amazing guy with an amazing team.

00:28Each of you on the field today is among the most talented members of your generation.

00:33You could have done anything you wanted.

00:35You could have gone anywhere.

00:37You could have gone to any school.

00:39This is one of the hardest schools to get into.

00:42And writing your own ticket to top jobs on Wall Street or Silicon Valley wouldn't be

00:48bad, but I think what you're doing is better.

00:52Instead of sports teams and spreadsheets and software, you chose a life of service

00:58— very important service — instead of stock options.

01:02And I do that stuff.

01:03It's sort of boring, honestly.

01:06Compared to what you're doing, it's real boring.

01:09You chose honor and you chose sacrifice.

01:12And instead of business suits and dress shoes, you chose muddy boots and fatigues, keeping

01:18yourself in shape.

01:20Because West Point cadets don't just have the brightest minds, you also have the bravest

01:25hearts and the noblest souls.

01:27You're amazing people.

01:29I could not be more proud to serve you as your Commander-in-Chief, and our country is

01:34doing well.

01:35We've turned it around.

01:36Very quickly, we've turned it around.

01:45I just got back from the Middle East.

01:48And I was at, as you know, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE.

01:54And I will tell you, they said — all three leaders, great leaders of those three nations

02:00— they all said the same thing.

02:02The United States of America is hotter now than we've ever seen it.

02:07And a year ago, it was as cold as it gets.

02:11And it's true.

02:12It's true.

02:13We have the hottest country in the world, and the whole world is talking about it.

02:18And that's an honor for all of us.

02:20I cannot wait to see the glory that is still ahead, however, for the West Point Class of

02:272025.

02:28And we're going to help you a lot, because we're going to give you a nation as good

02:33or better than it ever was.

02:34That's what I promise you.

02:43All the victories that you've had together on these grounds will soon pale in comparison

02:48to the momentous deeds that you'll perform on the mission you're accepting today.

02:53And as a future leader of America's Army — and we have that Army geared up.

03:00We have ordered — you know, we just went — $1 trillion military budget, General.

03:05You know that?

03:06One trillion.

03:08Some people say, Could you cut it back?

03:09I said, I'm not cutting 10 cents.

03:11There's another thing we can cut.

03:13We can cut plenty of others.

03:14Right, Dan?

03:15We can cut plenty of other things.

03:17And you have a good man in Dan, too, General.

03:19I think you're going to find that.

03:20It's a very different warfare out there today.

03:24Now, they've introduced a thing called drone.

03:27A drone is a little bit different.

03:29It makes — you have to go back and learn a whole new form of warfare, and you're going

03:34to do it better than anybody else.

03:36It won't be anybody close.

03:38Generation after generation, the men and women of the Army have done whatever it takes to

03:43defend our flag, pouring out their blood onto the fields of battle all over the world.

03:49And all over the world, you're respected like nobody is respected.

03:53Our soldiers have sprinted through storms of bullets, clouds of shrapnel, slogged through

03:59miles of dirt and oceans of sand, scaled towering cliffs of jagged rock.

04:06And time and time again, the American soldier has charged into the fires of hell and sent

04:11the devil racing in full retreat.

04:20No task has ever been too tough for America's Army.

04:25And now that 250-year legacy of glory and triumph belongs to you, the 1,000 newest

04:33officers of the greatest fighting force in the history of the world.

04:37And that's what you are, and that's what you're being thought of again.

04:42You are the first West Point graduates of the Golden Age of America.

04:47This is the Golden Age, I tell you.

04:50Promise.

04:51We're in a new age.

04:53This is the Golden Age.

04:57And you are going to lead the Army to summits of greatness that has never reached before.

05:02And you see that.

05:03You see what's happening.

05:04You see what's going on in the world.

05:07Each of you is entering the officer corps at a defining moment in the Army's history.

05:14For at least two decades, political leaders from both parties have dragged our military

05:18into missions it was never meant to be.

05:22It wasn't meant to be.

05:24People would say, why are we doing this?

05:26Why are we wasting our time, money, and souls, in some case?

05:32They sent our warriors on nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to

05:37do with us, led by leaders that didn't have a clue in distant lands, while abusing our

05:44soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home.

05:50All of that's ended.

05:51You know that.

05:53All of it's ended.

05:54It's ended.

05:55It's strongly ended.

05:56They're not even allowed to think about it anymore.

06:00They subjected the armed forces to all manner of social projects and political causes while

06:06leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries' wars.

06:13We fought for other countries' borders, but we didn't fight for our own border.

06:17Now we do, like we have never fought before, by the way.

06:23But under the Trump administration, those days are over.

06:28We're getting rid of the distractions, and we're focusing our military on its core mission,

06:34crushing America's adversaries, killing America's enemies, and defending our great American

06:41flag like it has never been defended before.

06:51The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows to transform foreign cultures

07:01or to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun.

07:07The military's job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America anywhere,

07:14any time, and any place.

07:24A big part of that job is to be respected again.

07:28And you are, as of right now, respected more than any army anywhere in the world.

07:33And that's happening.

07:34And I can tell you, you are respected like nobody can believe.

07:40As President, I am laser-focused on our core national interests.

07:45My preference will always be to make peace and to seek partnership, even with countries

07:51where our differences may be profound.

07:53As you know, we're working on a lot of things right now.

07:57When I left office four years ago, we had no wars.

08:00We had no problems.

08:02We had nothing but success.

08:04We had the most incredible economy, the single greatest economy for a President in history.

08:12I think we're going to beat it this time by a lot, if you want to know the truth.

08:16But we had something going on very special.

08:18But if the United States or its allies are ever threatened or attacked, the Army will

08:24obliterate our opponents with overwhelming strength and devastating force.

08:29That's why my administration has begun a colossal buildup of the United States Armed

08:35Forces, a buildup like we've never had before.

08:40Peace through strength.

08:41You know the term.

08:42I've used it a lot.

08:51Because as much as you want to fight, I'd rather do it without having to fight.

08:57I just want to look at them and have them fold.

09:01That's happening.

09:02That's happening.

09:03And I've approved a $1 trillion investment.

09:13And that will be, again, the largest ever in the history of our country.

09:19And we are buying you new airplanes, brand new, beautiful planes, redesigned planes,

09:26brand new planes, totally stealth planes.

09:29I hope they're stealth.

09:30I don't know.

09:31That whole stealth thing, I'm sort of wondering.

09:33You mean if we shape a wing this way, they don't see it?

09:36But the other way they see it, I'm not so sure.

09:38But that's what they tell me.

09:42We have the best tanks anywhere in the world.

09:45We're going to start shipbuilding again.

09:48We're going to start ship.

09:49We used to build a ship a day.

09:51Now we don't build them anymore.

09:52We had a lot of people that didn't know much about getting things built.

09:56But that's all I've done in my life is build.

09:58We're going to have the best missiles.

10:01We already do drones and much, much more.

10:04And earlier this week, I think you'll like this, I announced that we are officially building

10:09all in America, made in America, designed in America.

10:13We're the only ones that could do it because we're the only ones with the great technology.

10:18We're building the Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield to protect our homeland and to protect

10:24West Point from attack.

10:26And it will be completed before I leave office.

10:36And you know, you wouldn't think this, but our enemies are very unhappy about it.

10:40You've been hearing, you've been reading, why are they doing that?

10:43Why?

10:44Well, we're doing it because we want to be around for a long time.

10:47That's why we're doing it.

10:50We're also restoring the fundamental principle that a central purpose of our military is

10:55to protect our own borders from invasion.

10:59Our country was invaded for the last four years, and they've allowed people to come

11:04into our country that shouldn't be.

11:06They shouldn't be here.

11:08Criminals walk in, no vetting, no check in, no nothing.

11:12Where are they coming from?

11:15And they were taking people out of prisons.

11:17They were taking gang members.

11:18They were taking the mentally insane and allowing them to come in and we're getting them out

11:23of our country.

11:24We have no choice.

11:25We're getting them out and bringing them back where they came from.

11:29Have no choice.

11:32And it's not easy.

11:35It's not easy.

11:37But hopefully the courts will allow us to continue.

11:41You know, we had the greatest election victory.

11:44This was November 5th, was we won the popular vote by millions of votes.

11:49We won all seven swing states.

11:51We won everything.

11:52We won 2750 districts against 505, 2750 against 505.

12:03We had a great mandate, and it gives us the right to do what we want to do to make our

12:08country great again.

12:09And that's what we're going to do.

12:10And on day one, I deployed our military to the southern border.

12:15And since that day, we've reduced the number of illegal border crossings where there used

12:19to be hundreds of thousands of people coming into our country a day.

12:26We had nobody come in in the last week and a half.

12:30We were at 99.999 percent, 99.999.

12:41Think of that.

12:42That was with the help of our military.

12:45We had one person come in, one.

12:48You know why?

12:49He got very sick.

12:51We brought him through to have him brought to a hospital, one person.

12:55And for that, please don't hold me responsible, but that's OK.

12:59They did the right thing.

13:00Gone are the days where defending every nation but our own was the primary thought.

13:08We are putting America first.

13:10We have to put America first.

13:12We have to rebuild and defend our nation.

13:16And very shortly, you're going to see a nation better than it's ever been.

13:22And you see that with the trade.

13:24The years we've been ripped off by every nation in the world on trade, we've been ripped off

13:30at the NATO level.

13:32We've been ripped off like no country has ever been ripped off, but they don't rip us

13:37off anymore.

13:38They're not going to rip us off anymore.

13:40And you're seeing it.

13:41You have to watch what we're doing on trade.

13:43I know it's not your primary thing, but it's quite important in all fairness.

13:47But watch.

13:48You'll see what's going on.

13:50I've been reading about it over the last few days.

13:52We're making deals with other nations that were not even nobody thought it would be even

13:58possible.

13:59And the reason is very simple.

14:02They respect us again.

14:03They're respecting our country again.

14:05That's what you want.

14:07And everything we do, we are bringing common sense back to America.

14:11It's all about common sense.

14:12We can say we're liberal, we're conservative.

14:15The new word is progressive.

14:16They don't like using the word liberal anymore.

14:19That's why I call them liberal.

14:22But but whatever you are, you know, most importantly, you have to have common sense, because most

14:28of it's general.

14:29Most of it's about common sense when you get right down to it.

14:33And we have a lot of people with a lot of a lot of very smart people.

14:37But they have to have common sense.

14:39And we've liberated our troops from divisive and demeaning political trainings.

14:45There will be no more critical race theory or transgender for everybody forced onto our

14:50brave men and women in uniform or on anybody else for that matter in this country.

14:57And we will not have men playing in women's sports, if that's OK.

15:07I mean, I wouldn't want to have to tackle, as an example, Bryson as a man.

15:18But I don't think a lot of women want to tackle him.

15:21I don't think so.

15:22How crazy is it?

15:24Men playing in women's sports.

15:26How crazy is it?

15:28So ridiculous, so demeaning, so demeaning to women.

15:32And it's over.

15:33That's over.

15:34We've ended it.

15:36And promotions and appointments will not be based on politics or identity.

15:41They'll be based on merit.

15:42We won that case in the Supreme Court of the United States.

15:45We're allowed to go back to a system of merit.

15:49We're a merit based country again today.

15:54The fall in the armed forces is soaring to the highest levels in many decades after years

16:00of recruiting shortfalls.

16:02We had years and years of recruiting shortfalls.

16:06And just last year was the worst of all, the last year of the Biden administration.

16:15We couldn't get anybody to join our military.

16:17We couldn't get anybody to join our police or firefighters.

16:20We couldn't get anybody to join anything.

16:24And right now, just less than a year later, we just set a brand new peacetime recruiting

16:32record.

16:33The most, most people joined.

16:36And we are brimming.

16:37In fact, be careful.

16:38There's somebody going to try and take your job.

16:40Be careful.

16:41You better be good.

16:42We are brimming with confidence and we're brimming with people.

16:46We had the most best recruiting month that we've had in memory.

16:52Nobody remembers anything like it.

16:54And that's all because they have spirit now.

16:56They have spirit.

16:57They have a spirit for our country.

16:59And now everybody wants to be doing what you're doing.

17:02Think of that.

17:03So it's really a great honor, I will say.

17:06And I'm pleased to report that by next week, the army is expected to surpass its recruiting

17:12targets for the entire year.

17:14Something that hasn't happened in 28 years where we've had that.

17:17So that's pretty good.

17:25And it's nice to know that you're doing something that everybody wants to do, isn't it?

17:29Really nice.

17:30Wasn't I hated to hear that during the campaign?

17:32I was hearing that, that you couldn't get people to enlist.

17:36But now we're getting people and it's sad because we're telling so many people I'm sorry

17:40we can't do it.

17:42My administration is doing everything possible to forge the most powerful military ever built.

17:49But ultimately, the task of keeping America strong and safe for the years ahead is going

17:54to belong to you.

17:56Among you are the lieutenants, majors, colonels, and generals who will lead the army for the

18:01next 10, 20, 30, and even 40 years.

18:04So as commander in chief, let me offer a few words of advice as you begin your army careers

18:12And I thought I'd do this and I can make this to a civilian audience or to a military audience.

18:17It's pretty much the same.

18:20And I did this recently at Ohio State and they really liked it.

18:26I gave them a little advice as to what I see for what you want to do and some tips.

18:33And first of all, and you've already done it different from civilians.

18:37They're making their decision right now.

18:39You've already made your decision.

18:40I love your decision.

18:42You have to do what you love.

18:43You have to do what you love.

18:45If you don't love it, you'll never be successful at it.

18:48And you've done this.

18:49And you really many of you in the audience, many of you that are graduating, you come

18:55from military backgrounds or you love the military.

18:58It's what you want to do.

18:59It's what you want to talk about.

19:01One thing I see about people that love the military, that's all they want to talk about.

19:07I'll be out to dinner and generals, if they if they love their job, usually the only good

19:12ones are the ones that want to talk about it all the time.

19:16But if they talk, that's what they want to talk about.

19:18I rarely, really very rarely see somebody who's successful that doesn't love what he

19:24or she does.

19:25You have to love what you do.

19:27In your case, the military is what you chose.

19:30And I'll tell you what, you cannot go wrong.

19:32You're going to see it, too.

19:33You're going to love it more and more with time.

19:36You know, I work all the time.

19:37That's all I do is I work, whether it's politically or before that.

19:42I did.

19:43I was a very good businessman, in case you haven't heard, really good.

19:47But I was good because I loved it.

19:49I loved it.

19:50I learned from my father a little bit.

19:52My father was a happy guy.

19:55And all he did was work.

19:57He'd work Saturdays, Sundays.

20:00It work all the time.

20:02And he was a happy guy.

20:04He just loved life.

20:06And I learned that.

20:07I say, you know, it makes him happy.

20:08I've seen other people that never work and they're not happy.

20:14You got to love it.

20:15Otherwise, you won't be successful in the army.

20:18There are a lot of different paths you can take.

20:20So follow your instincts and make sure that you take the path that you love, that you're

20:25doing something that you love within your military.

20:28You will be happier and the army will be far stronger for it.

20:34The second is to think big.

20:35Always think big.

20:36If you're going to do something, you might as well think big, do it big, because it's

20:41just as tough.

20:42And sometimes it's a lot easier thinking big than doing a small task that's more difficult.

20:49One of your greatest graduates, General Eisenhower, used to say, whenever I run into a problem

20:56that I can't solve, I always like to make it bigger to solve it and solve more of it.

21:03If you're going to solve a problem, it might as well be a big problem as opposed to a small

21:07problem that lots of people can take advantage of and solve.

21:11So you can achieve something really amazing.

21:15Think big.

21:16Third, though, you got to do this brainpower you have to have, potential you have to have.

21:25But to be really successful, you're always going to have to work hard.

21:29An example is a great athlete, Gary Player, great golfer.

21:33He wasn't as big as the other men that were playing against him.

21:38Great big, strong guys.

21:39Gary was a smaller guy.

21:41I don't want to say too small.

21:42He's a friend of mine.

21:43He gets a little angry at people because he hits the ball just as far.

21:48He said, I hit the ball further than them.

21:50Why am I small?

21:52But he worked very, very hard.

21:54He was always doing exercise.

21:56He was always he was well ahead of his time.

22:00He never stopped.

22:01He won 168 golf tournaments.

22:02He won 18 majors, nine regular and nine on the senior tour, 18 with 168.

22:10That's the most tournaments internationally, the most tournaments anybody's ever won.

22:15But he made a statement years ago, and I heard it.

22:18I heard it.

22:19He's the first one.

22:20I think I've heard it a couple of times since, but he was the first.

22:23He said, it's funny, the harder I work, the luckier I get.

22:29And think of that.

22:30The harder I work, the luckier I get.

22:32And he worked hard, and you're working hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you're

22:37going to get.

22:38Fourth is don't lose your momentum.

22:42Momentum is an amazing thing.

22:44Keep it going.

22:45I tell a story sometimes about a man who was a great, great real estate man.

22:51It was a man who was admired for real estate all over the world, actually, but all over

22:59the country.

23:00He built Levittowns.

23:01He started as a man who built one house, then he built two, then he built five, then he

23:08built 20, then he built 1,000, then he built 2,000 and 3,000 a year.

23:16And he got very big, very big.

23:18He was great at what he did.

23:20You see him all over the country, still Levittowns.

23:22This was a long time ago, but he was the first of the really, really big homebuilders.

23:29And he became very rich, became a very rich man.

23:33And then he decided to sell.

23:37He was offered a lot of money by a big conglomerate, Gulf and Western, big conglomerate.

23:43They didn't do real estate.

23:44They didn't know anything about it, but they saw the money he was making.

23:47They wanted to take it to a public company, and they gave him a lot of money, tremendous

23:52amount of money, more money than he ever thought he'd get.

23:55And he sold his company, and he had nothing to do.

23:59He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife.

24:04Could you say a trophy wife?

24:05I guess we can say a trophy wife.

24:08It didn't work out too well, but it doesn't — that doesn't work out too well, I must

24:12tell you.

24:13A lot of trophy wives doesn't work out.

24:16But it made him happy for a little while, at least.

24:18But he found a new wife.

24:22He sold his little boat, and he got a big yacht.

24:23He had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world.

24:27He moved for a time to Monte Carlo, and he led the good life.

24:31And time went by, and he got bored.

24:35And 15 years later, the company that he sold to called him, and they said, the housing

24:45business is not for us.

24:46You have to understand, when Bill Leavitt was hot, when he had momentum, he'd go

24:52to the job sites every night, he'd pick up every loose nail, he'd pick up every scrap

24:57of wood.

24:59If there was a bolt or a screw laying on the ground, he'd pick it up and he'd use it

25:03the next day in putting together a house.

25:06But now he was spoiled, and he was rich.

25:08He was really rich.

25:10And they called, and they said, this isn't for us, this business.

25:13We do other things.

25:15Would you like to buy it back?

25:16We'll sell it back to you cheap.

25:18And they did.

25:19He bought it.

25:20He bought it.

25:21He thought he made a great deal, and he was all excited.

25:25But it was 15 years later, he lost a lot of momentum.

25:28Remember the word momentum?

25:31And he lost everything.

25:34It just didn't work.

25:35He lost everything.

25:36And I was sitting at a party on Fifth Avenue one night, a long time ago.

25:42And you had the biggest people in New York, the biggest people in the country, all in

25:46that party.

25:47And they were all saluting each other, how great they were.

25:49They were all telling each other, I'm greater than you.

25:53It gets me really — it gives you a headache sometimes.

25:57But they had all these people, they're telling their own stories about how fantastic — a

26:02cocktail party.

26:03And I looked over, and I was doing well.

26:05I was — I don't know.

26:06I was invited to the party, so I had to be doing well.

26:09I was very, very young.

26:11But I made a name in real estate.

26:13And I looked over, and at the party, sitting in a corner all by himself, nobody was talking

26:18to him.

26:19It was Mr. Leavitt.

26:20He had just gone bankrupt, lost everything.

26:22He'd lost everything, his home, everything.

26:27And I went over and talked to him, because he was in the real estate business, and I

26:31loved real estate.

26:32And I said, Hello, Mr. Leavitt.

26:34How are you?

26:35He said, Hello, Donald.

26:36It's nice to meet you.

26:38He knew me from being in the business.

26:41I said, So how's it going?

26:43He goes, Not well.

26:44It's really not going well, as you've probably read.

26:47It's been a very, very tough period for me, son.

26:51And I said, So what happened?

26:52Is there anything you can do?

26:54He goes, No, there's not a thing I can do.

26:57He said, I'll never forget.

26:59He said, I've lost my momentum.

27:02I just didn't have it.

27:04I used to have it, but I lost my momentum.

27:07So it's a story I tell, and you have to know when you have the momentum, but sometimes

27:12you have to also know when you've lost the momentum.

27:17And leaving a field sometimes, leaving what you're doing sometimes is okay.

27:23But you got to have momentum, but you have to know if that momentum is gone.

27:27You have to know when to say it's time to get out.

27:31And it's a very sad story.

27:33I remember that story so well, like it was yesterday.

27:36Fifth, you have to have the courage to take risks and to do things differently.

27:41Eisenhower again was threatened with court marshals as a young officer for advocating

27:47a new doctrine of tank warfare.

27:50Billy Mitchell was thrown out of the army for pioneering the use of air power.

27:55They said, What do you mean, air power?

27:57Don't be ridiculous.

27:58People willing to try and do things differently.

28:02It's never going to be easy for them, but they're the ones that are going to really

28:06do the important things.

28:08They're the ones who are going to make history.

28:10So don't be ashamed and don't be afraid.

28:12This is a time of incredible change.

28:16And we do not need an officer corps of careerists and yes men and people that want to keep it

28:21going the way it's been because it changes rapidly, especially what you're doing.

28:27Because believe it or not, you're in a business and profession where things change as rapidly

28:33like warfare, the type of warfare.

28:36Unfortunately, we're getting to see it with Russia and Ukraine, and we're studying it.

28:42And it's a very terrible thing to study.

28:45But we're seeing the different forms of warfare.

28:47We're seeing the drones that are coming down at angles and with speed and with with precision.

28:55We've never seen anything like it.

28:56I've never seen anything like it.

28:58And we're learning from it.

29:00But your profession changes very rapidly.

29:03You've got to keep you've got to be at the top of it.

29:06You've got to be right at the at the head of the needle.

29:10We need patriots with guts and vision and backbone who take personal risks to ensure

29:15that America wins every single time.

29:18We want to win our battles.

29:19You know, I defeated ISIS in three weeks.

29:22They told me it would take five years.

29:24And the general that did it, you know, that story was named Raisin Cane.

29:31His name is Dan Cane, but his nickname was Raisin Cane.

29:35And I said, your name is Raisin Cane.

29:38I love that.

29:39Is that a nickname?

29:40That's what they call me, sir.

29:41I love you, General.

29:42I think it's a guy I'm looking for.

29:44I want to know a guy named Raisin Cane.

29:46And he is now the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

29:50And he's a highly respected man.

29:52And we defeated.

29:53Think of it.

29:54ISIS, they said.

29:55They said, how long in Washington, sir, will take four years to defeat them, maybe five.

30:01And maybe we won't because they're all over the place.

30:05And then I met a man that said, we can do it in three weeks.

30:07And he did it, three weeks.

30:09And that's why he's the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff right now.

30:14And we did things that nobody thought were possible.

30:17We've had great military success.

30:19When you have the right leader and you have the right people, and we have the right people,

30:23you're going to have tremendous success.

30:25Six, never lose your faith in America and the American people, because they're always

30:31going to be there for you.

30:33I went through a very tough time with some very radicalized, sick people.

30:38And I say I was investigated more than the great, late Alphonse Capone.

30:44Alphonse Capone was a monster.

30:46It was a very hardened criminal.

30:49I went through more investigations than Alphonse Capone.

30:53And now I'm talking to you as president.

30:55Can you believe this?

30:57Can you believe it?

31:01So you got to fight hard, and you got to never give up, and don't let bad people take

31:07you down.

31:08You got to let them — you got to take them down.

31:10Got a lot of bad people out there, and those people, you have to figure it out.

31:14But you also have a lot of great people.

31:16Finally, hold on to your culture and your traditions, because that's what makes something

31:22really great.

31:23And that's what's made the Army great, the culture and the tradition.

31:28Whether we're talking about a battalion, a business, a sports team, or even a nation,

31:34history has shown that, in many ways, culture is destiny.

31:38So do not let anyone destroy the culture of winning.

31:42You have to win.

31:44Winning is a beautiful thing.

31:46Losing, not for us.

31:48It's not for us.

31:49Not for anybody here.

31:51If it was, you wouldn't be here.

31:53From the earliest days of our nation, this supreme tradition of American military service

31:59has been passed down from soldier to soldier and generation to generation, and it's a beautiful

32:06thing to watch.

32:08Graduating today is Cadet Ricky McMahon, Ricky's great-grandfather.

32:16Stand up wherever you are, Ricky, because you're going to like this.

32:20Ricky's great-grandfather served in World War I.

32:23His grandfather served in World War II.

32:27And his uncle, father, and mother all graduated from West Point.

32:33Where is Ricky?

32:36In 2004, when Ricky was just a little, little, tiny boy, who would think about that, Ricky,

32:45a little, tiny boy.

32:48His dad, Lieutenant Colonel Michael McMahon, made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation

32:53in Afghanistan.

32:55Today, Lieutenant Colonel McMahon rests not far from here in the West Point Cemetery.

33:03Last year, two decades after losing his father, Ricky placed a gold chip from his dad's 1985

33:11class ring into a crucible, along 87 other rings were with it, of past West Point grads

33:21that were melted down to forge those now worn by the class of 2025.

33:26Do you all know that?

33:27Do you know that, what you're wearing?

33:30I want one.

33:31Ricky, I want one.

33:35Each of you will carry Michael's memory with you always as you continue the legacy he gave

33:40you and gave you, something that would be so proud, he would be so proud.

33:46He is proud.

33:47As he looks down to Ricky and his mom, Jeanette, you embody what this place is all about.

33:53And I know Michael, he's up there, he's smiling broadly.

33:58So proud.

33:59He's so proud of you today.

34:00You know that?

34:02And he's a man that couldn't be, and he is a man that couldn't be more proud.

34:07And I want to just, I just love that story and everybody's ring, they're going to remember

34:12you.

34:13They're going to remember your family.

34:14And most importantly, you're going to remember a great tradition.

34:16It's a great tradition of West Point and of winners.

34:22Thank you very much.

34:23It's great to meet you.

34:25You can sit down.

34:26You want to come up?

34:27If you want to come up, come up.

34:28Come on up.

34:29Come on up here.

34:31Come on up here.

34:37That's nice.

34:38You're a handsome guy.

34:41They're all good looking here.

34:42I don't know what's going on.

34:44The whole crowd is beautiful.

34:46Thank you very much.

34:57I'd like to thank my mother.

34:59I'd like to thank my family and I'd like to thank G3, go Gophers.

35:13These are good looking people.

35:14I'll tell you, General, what's going on over here?

35:16Look like all a bunch of male models.

35:19I can't stand it.

35:21For two and a half centuries, our republic has endured because of heroes like Michael

35:32have laid down their lives for America and because young people like all of you have

35:37picked up the banner of service and carried forward the flag of freedom.

35:45From Lexington to Yorktown, from Gettysburg to Sicily and from Inchon to Fallujah, America

35:56has been won and saved by an unbroken chain of soldiers and patriots who ran to the sound

36:04of the guns, leapt into the maw of battle and charged into the crucible of fire to seize

36:11the crown of victory.

36:13No matter the odds, no matter the cost, no matter the danger.

36:18All over the world, our soldiers have made sacred the ground where they shed their blood

36:24and showed their valor.

36:27From Seminary Ridge to San Juan Hill, Belleau Wood, Omaha Beach, Leyte Gulf, and Ardennes

36:36Forest, Chosin Reservoir, all over, and even a place called Pork Chop Hill.

36:45And in all of those battles and so many more, some of the best, brightest, and bravest have

36:50come from right here at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, one of the great fabled

36:58places anywhere in the world.

37:01America's Army has never failed us, and with leaders like the West Point Class of 2025,

37:08the Army will never fail.

37:11We will never let you down.

37:20And over the last week, I had the honor of speaking to the heads of many countries, and

37:30they would say, two weeks ago, they say the 8th, they said, Sir, we're celebrating the

37:39victory today of World War II.

37:42And I said, wow, that's nice.

37:46And I'd call another one, unrelated, Sir, we're celebrating the victory of World War II.

37:53And I called up the President of France on something also unrelated.

37:58He said, Sir, we're celebrating our victory over World War II.

38:02I said, whoa, whoa, what have we here?

38:08We helped them a lot.

38:11And I had this Russia, I talked to Putin about ending that terrible war that's going on,

38:20and he said they're having a big victory march.

38:22And they did lose, in all fairness, 51 million people.

38:27But they were all celebrating.

38:29The only country that wasn't celebrating was the United States of America.

38:33And I said, isn't it amazing?

38:36We were the ones that won the war, and we were helped.

38:39We were helped.

38:40In some cases, we had to help them.

38:43But we were helped by some of the nations, and we were strongly helped by a couple of

38:48them.

38:49But every one of them was celebrating.

38:51They had Victory Day.

38:52They called it Victory Day in Europe, Victory Day all over.

38:57And we weren't even thought about.

39:00Nobody had a Victory Day.

39:02And so I named that special day and another special day from now on as a holiday, but

39:10a holiday where we work, because we don't have enough days.

39:13We're going to be having so many holidays, we're not going to be able to work anymore.

39:18But I named it for World War II and a separate day in November, as you know, for World War

39:26I.

39:27I said, you know, all of these countries that participated in the war are celebrating.

39:32But the greatest country of them all, and the country that won the war, nobody even

39:38talked about.

39:39And so we're going to be talking about it, too, from now on.

39:42And I think you'll appreciate it.

39:44We won the First World War.

39:46We won the Second World War.

39:49And you know where we won them from?

39:50Right here at West Point.

39:51West Point won the war.

39:55You won two world wars and plenty of other things.

39:59But you think of it, we don't want to have a third world war, but we won the First World

40:05War.

40:06We won the Second World War right here from West Point.

40:09And that's something.

40:10And we're going to be talking about it.

40:12You know, they can talk about it.

40:14And in some cases, as you know, they didn't do too much to help.

40:18They were they were ground down, but they were celebrating victory.

40:22No, we're going to celebrate victory because we're the ones that won that war standing

40:27before you today.

40:28I know that you will never stop.

40:32You will never quit.

40:33You will never yield.

40:34You will never tire.

40:36You will never, ever, ever surrender.

40:39Never give up.

40:40Remember that.

40:41Never give up.

40:42It's another little factor I could have added.

40:45Never, ever give up.

40:47Raise your right hand.

40:49I pledge I will never, ever give up.

40:51You can never give up.

40:53You can never give up.

40:55If you do, you're not going to be successful because you'll go through things that will

40:59be bad.

41:00You're going to have great moments.

41:02You're going to have bad moments.

41:03You can never give up through every challenge and every battle.

41:07You'll stand strong.

41:09You work hard.

41:10You'll stay tough.

41:12And you will fight, fight, fight, and win, win, win.

41:22So I want to just congratulate you all.

41:24I'm going back now to deal with Russia, to deal with China.

41:33What's that all about?

41:37And to get you lots of victories.

41:39We're going to keep winning.

41:41This country is going to keep winning.

41:42And with you, the job is easy.

41:44I want to thank you all.

41:46Congratulations to the class of 2025.

41:49God bless you all.

41:51Incredible people.

41:52Thank you very much, everybody.

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